1.
Who is Silvia? What is she,
‖: That all our swains commend her? :‖
Holy, fair, and wise is she.
The heav’n such grace ‖: did lend her :‖
‖: That she might admirèd be: :‖
The heav’n such grace did lend her.
2.
Is she kind as she is fair?
‖: For beauty lives with kindness. :‖
Love doth to her eyes repair
To help him of ‖: his blindness, :‖
‖: And, being helped, inhabits there :‖
To help him of his blindness.
3.
Then to Silvia, let us sing
‖: That Silvia is excelling. :‖
She excels each mortal thing
Upon the dull ‖: earth dwelling. :‖
‖: To her let us garlands bring :‖
Upon the dull earth dwelling.